recommended size of root partition

[illoai at gmail.com]

On 30/06/07, Ben Kaduk <minimarmot at gmail.com> wrote:
> Does anyone here know how much data a default FreeBSD install puts
> onto the root partition?  We've got a sentence in the installation
> chapter of the handbook that claims that a regular FreeBSD install
> will put about 40 MB of data on the root partition.
>
> I find it likely that this is no longer true on a modern system, since
> my (debug) kernel is 88 MB, but I don't have a box handy on which I
> can do a quick install.

A quick decompression of the base/base.[ab]? , kernels/generic.a? ,
manpages/manpages.a? followed by rm -rf usr/ var/ tmp/ leaves 36M
in the root directory.
6.2-RELEASE.

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